Puffskein
Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: Pearl of the Orient
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Hogwarts RPG Name: Sapphire Wulfweardsweorth Third Year | RAVENCLAWS, RP with me! ^_^ ♥ Gryffindor ♥ ★ Ravenclaw ★ SPOILER!!: ARI!!! ^_^ Quote:
Originally Posted by Lady of the Lake Ari sat in the Gryffindor area and was happy when Tayla took a seat right next to her. 'I don't know, but we're about to find out. Maybe. But either way, I'm sure it's gonna be fun.' she replied to her friend's question. Looking around, she saw Kurumi, and nodded and smiled to her. Also, there was Jory, sitting at the Hufflepuff table. Ari waved at him, hoping they'll have the chance to chat a bit after class. "This class is amazing isn't it?!" Tayla said with a grin, taking another sip of juice. She was having lots of fun. SPOILER!!: ZARA!!! ^_^ Quote:
Originally Posted by TwistedHearts Zara grinned and took a slice of Vanilla cake. Alright! this was the life. Learning is interactive and fun. Hihi.
After taking the slice of cake, Zara wondered where to sit. She took her quills, ink, parchment, and textbook and put them all in her bag. Standing up, she searched for anywhere to sit at. "Anybody wanna be friends with a Gryffindor there?"
Hoping someone would reply, Zara waited standing there as she watched all the others already have somewhere to sit and someone to talk to. "Hi Zara!" Tayla waved from where she was sitting next to Ari. "This class is awesome isn't it?" SPOILER!!: Professor Cerulean Quote:
Originally Posted by Lezleighd Gemma walked slowly to the front of the classroom smiling and taking small steady breaths. She hoped the students couldn't tell that she was nervous about her first lesson.
When she reached the front of the room, she turned towards the class and said in her sweet voice, "Alright, let's go ahead and get started..." she said with a little nod up and down.
She spanned the room quickly and didn't see anyone asleep...yet...that was a good sign...right?..."Well, before we get started, I would like to formally introduce myself." she said as she pushed a stray blonde bang behind her ear. "I'm Professor Gemma Cerulean. This is my first year teaching at Hogwarts and I am very excited to try to make History of Magic a little bit more fun then it has been in the past...or atleast that's my goal for the term." she took a breath and then continued. "I am a Hogwarts graduate and I am happy to back at the school to help share my love of History." she said with a little shrug of her shoulders. "I'm excited to meet you all and I encourage you to come visit me at my office anytime."...and now on to the lesson.
With a flick of her wand, the fireworks and confetti all went off at once over each of the tables, "Welcome to the first History of Magic lesson of the term. Today we are celebrating something amazing!" she said blowing some confetti off of her lip. "Today's lesson may be a review for many of you but I think it's important to always start the term off with a history that is very important to every wizard and witch." she smiled at the students...okay enough with the build up.
With another flick of her wand, the muggle Happy Birthday song started playing and the Happy Birthday banner started changing colors crazily. "Today we are celebrating the Birthday of Hogwarts!!!" she said excitedly as more fireworks went off and candy started falling from the ceiling.
"So, let's get started....can anyone tell me approximately how old Hogwarts is?" she asked flicking her wand to make all of the commotion stop. "Make sure you raise your hand before you answer...O and please say your name and house before your answer so I can start putting a face with a name!"
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Originally Posted by Lezleighd Gemma smiled as hands went up all over the classroom and almost all of them were correct....well that's a good start a class even if it was a simple question. "Good job everyone! It isn't exactly known when the founders started Hogwarts, but it was around 1100 years ago. It's kind of amazing to think that Hogwarts has been around for that long and that we, as a whole, have overcome so many struggles and tribulations along the way." she focused back in realizing that she was kind of being a History nut for a minute.
She pointed her wand to each table as she spoke the next things. When her wand was pointed towards a table, a clear holographic crest of the house would appear over the table and remained over the table.
"Now we all know that Hogwarts was founded by four extraordinary wizards/witches." she flicked her wand towards the red table, "Godric Gryffindor" the holographic crest of the house appeared and spun slowly over the table. She pointed it towards the blue table and a crest appeared. "Rowena Ravenclaw" She repeated the process at the other two tables, "Helga Hufflepuff." and "Salazar Slytherin." "Each wizard was known for their amazing talents and successes within the wizarding world and were known as pioneers of their time, which was a very hectic time, but we will get to that later on....if we have time..." she flicked her wand the crests stopped moving but were still their see-through versions.
She turned the wand towards the big and long board behind her and flicked it. Instantly the board was divided evenly into the four colors of the houses. "I have charmed the board to keep track of your responses." she said and then she said each house name again and the board magically began writing out the name of each house in the professor's handwritting over the appropriate color division. "In order to help it keep track of your answers, make sure you always say your name followed by your house and then your answer." she said with a little nod and one final flick.
She glanced over at the long table covered in decorations against the wall, "Before I ask my next question, please feel free to have a drink." she flicked her wand and instantly the cups spread out across the room and landed in front of each student followed by the correctly colored punch bowl that floated around the room filling up cups. "I hope you like the drinks, they are muggle flavored Kool-aid in the color of your house. I think the flavors are Cherry, Blueberry, Pineapple, and Apple."
She turned her complete attention towards the class. "Now I want you to share one thing that you know about the founder of your house, such as appearance, where they were born, what they were known for, skills, artifacts related to them or your house, attributes, etc. Let's make sure to stay away from hearsay or rumors, please." she said glancing out at the students. "Please try to only answer one thing so that everyone can have a chance to answer."
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Originally Posted by Lezleighd The professor was just so excited about the great answers on the board. She glanced at the board with a smile and then back at the students. With a flick of her wand, the cakes from the different tables hovered over to the middle of each cluster of tables. “It’s almost that time to eat the cakes, I have one more question and then we’ll dig in.” she said as the cakes landed simultaneously.
“There are a few things that I want to add to the lists really quick.” she said glancing back at the board and with a flick of her wand a few more details were written across the different parts. ”There that will do..”
She turned back towards the class. “As you can see the founders were amazing wizards and witches with great talents and strengths. As you know, they created their houses in their image.” She flicked her wand and the boards flipped over again. They were still divided into the house colors but they had been wiped clean of the notes. “Now I want you to share ONE attribute that the founders looked for in their houses when they were sorting....or ONE attribute that you feel your house is based on.” she glanced out and realized that might not make sense, so she decided to give an example. “For example, as Ms. Deluise mentioned earlier, Godric Gryffindor sleected students according to bravery. Now remember we don’t want this to turn into a battle between houses, so just stick with facts not your opinion on whether the founders were right or wrong in their decisions. Remember that was over 1100 years ago and times were different.” she said hoping to fend off the comments of ‘I believe that so and so believing that only pigs should be chosen was correct.’ Before she let them start answering she said once again, “ Make sure you say your house so the board knows which column to place your answer under.”
As they answered, she flicked her wand and started placing a plate and a fork and a knife in front of each student. This time around she was mixing up the colors intentionally. Quote:
Originally Posted by Lezleighd Gemma smiled at the young man and held back a giggle, “ Great thinking. I’m not sure what it would. It would probably just put down Mr. Bean, which is a very funny muggle actor.” she said with a little friendly wink towards the student. It was always nice to have a little bit of humor in her class...she liked this one.
She glanced at the board one more time and shook her head in approval. There were enough traits up there to share her point.
“ Thank you everyone for helping out with this. We have some amazing attributes and traits from each house.” she said glancing over her shoulder one more time.
Then with a flick of her wand the colors that divided the four sections disappeared and all that were left were just the traits.
She turned back to the students and with a flick of her wand the list was alphabetized so that you couldn’t really tell where the traits had been before. It was just a list of words.
“ Okay now we have just a list of attributes and traits that Hogwarts students have. Glance at that list and try to find five words that describe you.” she said glancing over her shoulder.
“ Welcome to Hogwarts! Where we are a group of students working to further our education in the Wizarding World. And if you’ll notice many of us, including myself, have traits and attributes from other houses and that’s what makes Hogwarts and the work of our founders so amazing.” she said looking at the student’s faces trying to see if they understood her.
Then with a flick of her wand, everything in the room turned into a deep purple shade. From the table cloths on all of the tables to the cakes to the cups to eatery to the fireworks to the confetti, all were a dark shade of Hogwarts Purple. Instantly the disappearing confetti started falling again and the fireworks all popped in purple.
“ I want each of you to see our History of Hogwarts not so much as the history of the houses but as a history of all of us. So, here’s what I want you to do....Grab your plate and your fork and knife and your cup and move to another table. You can not sit by anyone from your own house. You have one minute to find a new spot.” she paused for a minute to let this sink into their brains. ”Okay ready get set GO!” she said loudly waiting for the students to scramble through the confetti and fireworks. "Once everyone is seated, we will start cutting up the different cakes." she said as she felt her stomach rumble.
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Originally Posted by Lezleighd
Gemma glanced out into the students to see how the moving and the eating and the mingling was going. It seemed to be going well...I mean there weren't any food fights or fist fights or hair pulling going on out in the crowd.
She stood up again after finishing the last bite of her cake and flicked her wand. The purple fireworks went off again which kind helped quiet things down a bit.
"Okay so let's talk about Hogwarts for a little bit...." she said glancing around a bit. "It is after all the 1100 plus Birthday party for Hogwarts that we are celebrating." she said enthusiastically. "Continue eating and drinking but let's move one with the lesson." she said as she took a quick drink of her apple kool-aid.
She motioned to the young man that had sat down beside her during the move..."Mr. De Simpson has brought up an excellent question so I'm going to throw it out to you all to answer." she paused raising her left eyebrow slightly, "Why did the Founders name our school, Hogwarts?" She was excited to hear what kind of answers the students came up with. She quickly added, "Now that we aren't using the board to list things you don't have to introduce yourself before your answer, just make sure you raise your hand please." Quote:
Originally Posted by Lezleighd Gemma paused just for a second and waited for another answer before continuing, "You all have some great ideas! Sadly that is something that has never been found in any records, so we can only speculate what the Founders meant when naming Hogwarts. I'm sure since they were four exceptional wizards there was an amazing meaning, and even perhaps, one that one of you mentioned." she said with a smile and slight shrug of her shoulders.
She hoped she wasn't overwhelming them with information but she knew there was just so much stuff that the students knew about Hogwarts but they just never really thought about deeply, "Now I want you to think about the motto of Hogwarts: 'Draco dormiens nunquam titillandus' or Never Tickle a Sleeping Dragon or sometimes it's translated Always let a sleeping dragon lie." she let that sink in for a moment and then continued, "Now think about the different houses and the success of the school because of the four houses working together. What do you think the Founders meant by choosing such a random motto?"
She flicked her wand, and the drink bowls came back around to fill up the glasses around the room. Then with another flick of her wand, the Hogwarts school song started playing in the background. It wasn't really the boring version but more of an upbeat version with a beat and guitar in it...it was a cool little arrangement. 'Hogwarts, Hogwarts, hoggy warty Hogwarts,
Teach us something please,
Whether we be old and bald,
Or young with scabby knees,
Our heads could do with filling,
With some interesting stuff,
For now they're bare and full of air,
Dead flies and bits of fluff,
So teach us things worth knowing,
Bring back what we've forgot,
Just do your best, we'll do the rest,
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She looked up at the board again and choosing the words that described her, softly said it to herslf. "Courage, determination...friendly...caring and knowledge." She stood up and hastily found a new spot. She decided to sit with the Ravenclaws, where he grandmother was in. "Hello," she greeted one of them as she sat down.
Tayla raised her hand when she heard Professor Cerulean's question. "About the motto..." Tayla said, thinking quickly as she spoke. This she was much better at, compared to Arithmancy - and Maths back in Muggle school. "I think they chose it because...well, they were all great wizards, Gryffindor, Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff, and Slytherin. I think the motto serves as a reminder - a warning even, to all of us that...if there is danger or trouble, we shouldn't try it's patience - or provoke it. If we do, we face consequences that will affect not only ourselves but others, too..."
Tayla shuddered. "Professor, was there anything that happened between the four founders that made them...possibly...warn us about that?"
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